"The exec answered: 'She's beautiful, isn't she? A Mormon girl. Not too much upstairs, but what a body!'

    "Profoundly metaphorical."

-- Randall Shortridge
quoting from movie "The Last Don II" by Mario Puzo

    "And there are many among us who have many revelations, for they are not all stiffnecked.  And as many as are not stiffnecked and have faith, have communion with the Holy Spirit, which maketh manifest unto the children of men, according to their faith."

-- Jarom 1:5

    "When a man stands for freedom he stands with God.  And as long as he stands for freedom he stands with God.  And were he to stand alone he would still stand with God -- the best company and the greatest power in or out of this world."

-- Ezra Taft Benson
An Enemy Hath Done This, pp. 54,55

    "Touch every life that you can, and leave every life sublimely better by that touch."

-- Spencer W. Kimball

    "Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time."

-- Amos 5:13

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    "Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!"

-- Isaiah 5:21

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    "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."

-- Proverbs 16:25

    "Knowing what we know as his servants, can we hesitate to raise a warning voice to all who will listen that they may be prepared for the days ahead? Silence in the face of such calamity is sin!"

-- Ezra Taft Benson
LDS President of Quorum of Twelve BYU, 1981

    "At some point I read the commandment of the Lord in 3 Nephi 23 to search and study the Book of Isaiah. ...Since this was the one thing I lacked to become 'perfect,' I began a diligent study of Isaiah." 

-- Robert Smith
"Last Days Unsealed," Epilogue;
Agreka Books; 1999; p. 193.

    "A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them."

-- Joel 2:3

    "And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits."

-- Daniel 11:32

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exploit (eks-ploit) n. A deed or act, especially one marked by heroism or daring.

    "I know what I believe.  I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe -- I believe what I believe is right."

-- George W. Bush
'Believer-in-Chief, when asked whether the violent protests in Genoa had influences his views' (TIME, Aug. 6, 2001, p. 13)

    "An unconstitutional act is not law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; affords no protection, it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed."

-- Norton vs. Shelby County, 118 US 425 p. 442

    "If Einstein were to go to school today, he would be placed in special ed and put on Ritalin."

-- Cheri Allan

    "See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build and to plant"

-- Ezekiel 14:14,16,18,20-22

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    "Graft in the [good] branches . . . , and as they begin to grow ye shall clear away the branches which bring forth bitter fruit, according to the strength of the good and the size thereof; and ye shall not clear away the bad thereof all at once, lest the roots thereof shall be too strong for the graft . . . . "

Jacob 5:64,65

    "Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it [four calamities mentioned one at a time: (1) sword, (2) famine, (3) noisome beast, (4) pestilence; each time saying:], they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God."
    "Now much more when I send my four sore judgments...."
    "Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant...."

-- Ezekiel 14:14,16,18,20-22
Comment in [brackets] added.

    "Religions are a vehicle to take you to a destination. The purpose of religion is to help you have a personal relationship with God. God wants us to love God with all our being and to know the Truth of God. If we find God in an intimate loving relationship then we are going the right way."

-- Howard Storm
My Descent Into Death
Avowed atheist dies, goes to hell,
is redeemed by Christ.

    "There are good people in bad religions and there are bad people in good religions. It is not so important which religion, but what individuals do with the religion they have been given."

-- Howard Storm
My Descent Into Death
Avowed atheist dies, goes to hell,
is redeemed by Christ.

   Q. Which is the best religion?
   A. I was expecting [the angels] to answer with something like Methodist, or Presbyterian, or Catholic, or some denomination.
   They answered, 'The religion that brings you closest to God.'

-- Howard Storm
My Descent Into Death
Avowed atheist dies, goes to hell,
is redeemed by Christ.

   "God abhors the misuse of religion that creates divisiveness between people, that justifies violence, that promotes pride in self-righteousness. God is far greater than any religion. The Spirit of Christ speaks to all people in all time to draw them to God."

-- Howard Storm
My Descent Into Death
Avowed atheist dies, goes to hell,
is redeemed by Christ.

   "Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist, and also of another who should come and restore all things, as it is written by the prophets."

-- JST-Matthew 17:14

   "One ultimately doesn't need to worry about testing messengers, since all are from God. One just needs to see beyond the messenger to get the message."

-- Randall Shortridge
To David's Outcasts, July 16, 2001

   "The mainstream is not in keeping with the spirit of greater things, which seeks for the source of truth, for the mainstream goes downhill, not up."

-- Sterling D. Allan
Private correspondence, July 17, 2001

   " 'Dangerous'? Yes. Freedom allows for the possibility of failure.  Leaving the fold of religious socialism (hierarchy-controlled spirituality) means leaving the security of well-defined parameters (whether or not they are correct)."

-- Sterling D. Allan
(click here for context question)

   "If you believe, as I do, that one important measure of our humanity is our regard for other living beings, then the grisly practices of industrial ranching are immoral."

-- John Balzar, LA Times, July 13, 2001
(See full article | Vegan index)

   "In matters of the heart, even the greatest hero can be a consummate idiot."

-- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

   "Dear Sirs: A Mr. John Sherman has written us from a town in Ohio, U.S.A. as to the profits that may be made in the National Banking business under a recent act of your Congress [National Bank Act of 1863]....  Apparently, this act..., if enacted into law, would prove highly profitable to the banking fraternity throughout the world.
   "Mr. Sherman declares that there has never before been such an opportunity for capitalists to accumulate money, as that presented by this act, and that the old plan of State Banks is so unpopular, that the new scheme will, by contrast, be most favorably regarded, notwithstanding the fact that it gives the National Banks an almost absolute control of the National finance.  'The few who can understand the system,' he says, 'will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors, that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantages that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complain and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical [adverse] to their interests.' ...."

               Your respectful servants,
               Rothschild Brothers
               London, June 25, 1863

   "Canadians spend a huge portion of their social life trying to define what it means to be Canadian. Americans never spend any time trying to define what it means to be American. Canadians have an identity crisis. We look like Americans. We sound like Americans. We know everything about Americans. They know nothing about us. . . . We find that funny."

-- Rick Mercer, CBC television
American's Folly a Joke Up North

   "This Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth.  When the President [Wilson] signs this bill the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized."

-- Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr.; Dec. 23, 1913

   "The most hated sort of money-making, and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself and not from the natural use of it -- for money was intended merely for exchange, not for increase at interest.  And this term interest, which implies the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money, because the offspring resembles the parent.  Wherefore of all modes of money-making, this is the most unnatural."

-- Aristotle, 350 B.C.

   "Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who makes its laws"

-- Mayer Amschel Rothschild, 1790

   "Many proposals have been made to us to adopt your laws, your religion, your manners and your customs. We would be better pleased with beholding the good effects of these doctrines in your own practices, than with hearing you talk about them."

-- Old Tassel, Chief of the Tsalagi

   "I believe there are more instances of abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."

-- James Madison

   "...He shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth."

-- Isaiah 11:3,4

   "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it."

-- Thomas Jefferson

   "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."